Company launches its own label and will collaborate with LSO Live on new recordings of HGO performances HOUSTON—May 14, 2025—Houston Grand Opera (HGO) is proud to announce a new partnership with the London Symphony Orchestra […]
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic today announces its highly anticipated 2025-26 season. This season marks the 185th anniversary of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and welcomes new Chief Executive, Vanessa Reed. General booking opens on Wednesday 28 May, […]
The ex-Russian pianist joins David Krauss this week for Speaking Soundly. Kissin, the precisionist, admits to bring human. He makes mistajes like everyone else. On one occasion he ran out of encores and the audience […]
Message from Staatsoper Unter den Linden: Margot Friedländer (1921-2025) With Margot Friedländer, an extraordinary personality has died. In an impressive way, she testified to the horrors of the Holocaust and the crimes of the National […]
André de Ridder appointed as ENO’s Music Director, with his first conducting engagement as Music Director Designate in February 2026.The 2025/26 Season includes 12 productions and concerts across London and Greater Manchester, featuring 5 new […]
Newly installed as chief conductor of Danish National Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Øland was installed today as GMD in Magdeburg, starting in August. He’s 30, a graduate of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. The post Baton […]
The music director in Freiburg am Breisgau, André de Ridder, was today named music director of English National Opera. He starts in autumn 2027, by which time there may not be much left of the […]
Der Spiegel reports that 36 of the 63 dancers of the Hamburg Ballet have written to the cultural senator complaining about ‘a toxic working environment’. Five of the 11 First Soloists have resigned after falling […]
The Leonie Sonnings Talent Awards are the biggest thing in Danish opera. This year’s winner, announced this morning, is a young soprano at at the Royal Danish Opera who was the subject of a TV […]
The conductor has let it be known that the quarter-million Euros he has received from Siemens will go towards buying instruments for the period ensemble he is developing at Bavarian Radio in Munich. ‘I am […]
